Innovation Specialist

2 months ago

Mississauga, Canada Keurig Dr Pepper Full time

**Innovation Specialist - Cold**:

- Permanent, Full-Time_
Mississauga, ON, Hybrid (3 days/week)

As the **Innovation Specialist**, you will be the functional expert guiding brand, technical, and supply chain project leads effectively through the innovation process to bring new products to market.

**Responsibilities**:
**Innovation Process Governance and Continuous Improvements (50%)**:

- Co-champion executional excellence and adherence to KDP's New Stage Gate/New Product Introduction (NPI) 2.0 commercialization process.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities for the NPI process to help drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across cross-functional teams and ensure adherence across teams.
- Onboard new members of KDP cross-functional teams to ensure understanding of the NPI process, and drive a quarterly training program.
- Manage regular updates to the innovation project tracker for gate status, follow-ups from gate meetings, and timing for next gate and financials.
- Report progress on gate progression for all innovation projects based on key milestone dates.
- Plan the annual calendar of NPI meetings and a workback schedule for key deliverables to present gate documents at those meetings.
- Align with the Innovation Director on the agenda for NPI meetings and determine which projects are presented live versus via MS Teams approvals.
- Oversee access and maintenance of the NPI SharePoint site to maintain firewalls, update users accordingly, and archive outdated files.
- Gather documents for pre-read and coordinate with presentation owners to ensure adherence to the NPI process/agenda.
- Chair the NPI committee, send out pre-read/MS Teams approvals, record outcomes, and share approvals or outcomes with project leads.

**Developing the Innovation Pipeline (50%)**:

- Collaborate with the Innovation Manager on projects moving from ideation, concept testing, development, to production.
- Manage assigned projects from start to finish with cross-functional teams in both the US and Canada.
- Actively participate in Innovation cross-functional meetings, Canadian SC OPS, and US IMO/SC meetings for the assigned portfolio to provide project updates and follow up with other departments as needed to track project progress against the targeted launch date.
- Work closely with Supply Chain, Production, Demand Planning, and Finance to achieve key project milestones.
- Engage with the US team to investigate opportunities to lift and adapt innovations for the Canadian market.
- Coordinate with the Consumer Insights team to develop and execute concept testing to validate potential new products.
- Prepare new product development requests and brief R&D to begin formula creation.
- Provide updates for innovations as part of monthly brand reviews.
- Support post-mortem analysis and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure KPI progress is tracked, with results shared with the leadership team.
- Support the Innovation Manager by analyzing consumer, category, and sales trends for whitespace opportunity mapping and innovation roadmap development.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in marketing.
- Minimum 4-6 years of experience, preferably in the food, beverage, or consumer packaged goods industries.
- Strong project management skills; comfortable multitasking between different projects.
- Self-motivated, results-oriented, with the ability to lead new projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong collaborative skills to build stakeholder trust across multiple levels and teams.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to map consumer, category, and market data to identify innovation opportunities.

**Competencies**:

- Proficiency in MS Project; Project management certification is an asset.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Proficiency in Nielsen (Consumption, Panel, BASES).

**_ Keurig Dr Pepper Canada is a leading multi-national beverage company, with offices all over the world and across Canada. From coast to coast, Keurig Dr Pepper Canada offers a beverage for everyone, for every occasion and for all Canadians. Because of the global and national scope of the role we are recruiting for above, as well as the cross functional needs required of this role, we have _**_determined_**_ that French & English language (written and spoken) are _**_required_**_. _**_We have further evaluated that the English knowledge already _**_required_**_ from other employees is insufficient for the performance of the duties requiring the knowledge of English and that the number of positions for which we _**_require_**_ such knowledge is the smallest possible to ensure the effective accomplishment of our mission._**

**Total Rewards **Requirements **Company Overview**
- Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ : KDP) est une entreprise de boissons moderne ayant une vision audacieuse qui vise à offrir croissance et opportunité. Nous opérons avec un mod

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